Province, union working toward travel nurse program

NDP Leader Claudia Chender is calling on the province's auditor general to look at the government's use of travel nurses.

Travel nurses fill a gap in the system, Chender said, but she said the question the government needs to answer is how to fill that gap within the public system. Like the union, the NDP has supported the call for the creation of a provincial travel nurse program.

"Right now we're fighting against ourselves and we're spending an enormous amount of money on a Band-Aid that's not going to get us toward what this government says their goal is, which is to fix health care," she said in an interview.

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